1509, in the fifty-second year of his age, and the twenty-fourth of his reign, and was buried in the magnificent Chapel which he had built at Westminster. He appointed his Mother executrix of his will; and her first act after his death was to draw up a list of persons to act as councillors to her grandson the young King. She however survived her son by but three months and died at Westminster on the 29th of June, 1509, in the sixty-ninth year of her age. She was buried at the east end of the south aisle of Henry the Seventh's Chapel where a monument of black marble and touchstone has been erected, on which is an image of copper, gilt. Her tomb was the production of the Florentine sculptor, Piecho Torregiano, and we imagine, by comparing the effigy with existing portraits of Lady Margaret, that the artist has here preserved her features in a very successful manner. visitor to Westminster Abbey may notice a great resemblance between the effigies of Henry VII. and his Mother, which is a partial proof that the casts are both good likenesses. Her epitaph, which we give below was written by Erasmus who received for it a reward of twenty shillings. MARGARETAE. RICHEMONDIAE. SEPTIMI. HENRICL MATRI. OCTAVI. AVIAE. QVAE. STIPENDIA. CONSTITVIT. TRIB. HOC. COENOBIO. MONACHIS. ET. DOCTORI. GRAMMATICES. APVD. WYMBORN. PERQ: ANGLIAM. TOTAM. DIVINI. VERBI, PRAECONI, DVOB. ITEM. INTERPRAETIB: LITTERAR: SACRAR: ALTERI OXONIIS. ALTERI. CANTABRIGIAE. VBI. ET. COLLEGIA. DVO. CHRISTO. ET. IOANNI. DISCIPVLO, EIVS. STRVXIT. MORITVR. AN. DOMINI M. D. IX. III. KAL IVLII. (To be continued.) CHARADE. HE marched beside He came and steered But (shame! be cried) When once he tried To steal a kiss From one so prim He raised the glass For health or wealth. W. A. W. MEMINISSE JUVABIT. O BID me not forget thee! The love which with my life has grown Can ne'er forgotten be: As long as love and life remain, I'll love and live for thee! Thy form engraved upon my heart As upwards fly the sparks of fire; MEMOR. OUR CHRONICLE. THE Term which is now drawing towards its close has been a very ordinary one in everything but its length and wintry character; but it may become a memorable epoch in the history of the University, if ever a time arrives when the "sweet girl graduate" is a reality, as a Grace of the Senate has been passed, for allowing girls to become candidates in the non-gremial examinations. This is doubtless considered by many to be only the thin end of the wedge, but if so, we imagine that it is so very thin, that if an attempt is made to drive it farther at present, it will only break off. We do not expect to live to see the day when the University Race will be rowed in crinolines, or when the names in the tripos lists will have Da prefixed. We had, by the way, an unprecedented commencement to the Mathematical Tripos List this year, and our only regret in seeing a young nobleman Senior Wrangler was that he was not a Johnian. It was however a very successful year for the College, as we had fifteen wranglers, and amongst them the second, Mr. A. Marshall. We had only six candidates for the Classical Tripos, and they were divided equally between the three classes. We had one double first, Mr. M. H. L. Beebee, who was eighteenth wrangler and bracketed fourth in Classics. Mr. W. H. Besant, Mathematical Lecturer of the College, has been appointed Deputy Esquire Bedell to assist Mr. Hopkins. The Electors were those Members of the University whose names are on the Electoral Roll. The result of the voting was as follows: Mr. Besant, St. John's College 90. 74. Mr. C. B. Clarke, Queens' College 13. The Burney Prize has been adjudged to J. B. Pearson, B.A., the College Lecturer in the Moral Sciences. The subject of the essay was-"A consideration of the proofs that the Author of Nature is a Being endued with liberty and choice." The election to the Bell Scholarships took place on Friday March 31st: they were adjudged to 1. W. R. Kennedy, King's College. A bill has been laid before the House of Lords, during the present session, for making alterations in the government of certain public schools, in accordance with the recommendations of the Commission which has recently enquired into their state and efficiency. The changes proposed seem to be of a most sweeping description. At St. John's we are chiefly concerned with Shrewsbury School, the welfare of which from its long and intimate connections with the College, cannot fail to be a subject of some interest to every member of the College. In the case of this school the Bill proposes to deprive the College of its right to the appointment of the Head and second masters, and to vest that power and the entire management of the School in the hands of a Committee of thirteen, in which it is almost certain that the representatives of the Corporation of Shrewsbury would have supreme power. The effect of these changes would most certainly be to make the School no longer a classical School of the highest reputation, but an ordinary second-rate country Commercial School. It is to be hoped therefore, that this ill-advised scheme may not pass into law, but that if the Bill pass at all it may receive such modifications as may at least remove some of the more serious objections to its provisions. We are glad to hear that the College has presented a petition to the House against those clauses of the Bill in which it is interested. It is just three years ago, and the time seems much shorter, that we informed our readers of the sudden death of our late Senior Dean, the Rev. Basil Williams, Vicar of Holme on Spalding Moor, who had held the living little more than six months; and it is now our melancholy duty to Chronicle the equally sudden death of his successor, the Rev. William Charles Sharpe, also late Senior Dean, who died of apoplexy on the 5th of March. It is a very remarkable as well as a very solemn fact that of the Master, President, Tutors, and Deans of the College of nine years ago, one only, the Rev. Canon Atlay, is now alive. The College, and we may say the whole University is about to sustain a great loss by the departure of the Rev. A. |